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Originally posted by KillarneyRose
I have heard this about some of the NPC sororities but I've always wondered how their founders knew that the rituals of other sororities were Christian-based? Were some of them members of a sorority and then quit and founded a new one? Were they told during rush? Does anyone know? I was just curious. 
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AEPhi is one of the sororities that this is true of. I don't think that the founders (who were all Jewish) knew if the *rituals* of other sororities were Christian-based, but I imagine some of them went through rush and saw that all (or most of) the members of the existing sororities at Barnard were Christian, and they either felt uncomfortable with that and dropped out of rush, or the sisters of those existing sororities felt uncomfortable with the idea of Jewish sisters and cut them. These women still liked the idea of being part of a sisterhood, though, so they formed their own - and since they were Jewish, they built it on Jewish ideals.
This is why I'm so dismayed when I hear statements, such as those made in this thread, that particular chapters of AEPhi routinely cut anyone who isn't Jewish. I cannot believe that is what our founders would have wanted.